Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

regy1990 This is a hilarious movie. Kirby Heyborne (the actor who plays the main character) is so fun. You just have to watch it to understand the funniness. This is a movie you can watch with little kids or adults, and even though it's a comedy, you don't have to worry about dirty jokes. It's clean and even if you don't know much about 'mormons' you will still like it. And apparently I am supposed to have a certain number of lines for them to post this, so I am just going to keep typing until I have enough to qualify. as good as this movie is, I can't say much more than it will make you laugh. A lot. So kids, don't do drugs and about where babies come from. You see, when a man and a women really love each other... I have enough lines now, so watch the movie and be happy!

Tim Rollins UPDATED REVIEW: Kurt Hale, WHAT HAPPENED, BUDDY?? You follow up The Singles Ward with this?!? The Singles Ward had me laughing myself silly almost as much as Airplane did back in 1980, yet this piece of crap had me putting to the test the words "hope to be able endure all things." I was able to endure this sorry piece of cinematic garbage to the end only because I wasn't going to give you the satisfaction of walking away...THE ONLY REASON THIS FILM HAS ONE STAR LISTED IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GIVE IT EITHER ZERO STARS OR A NEGATIVE FIGURE, SO CONSIDER THAT CAREFULLY WHEN READING THIS REVIEW...This piece of garbage is by far the worst film I have ever seen in showing an inaccurate depiction of the life of a returned missionary! Kurt Hale did a GREAT job with The Singles Ward, but with this turkey, the flaws were so numerous and script holes so large, you could have parked, or even driven a Boeing 747 through.Unlike Hale's first film The Singles Ward where the laughs were fast and furious because they came easily and naturally, with The R.M., the laughs had to be forcibly pried with a crowbar. It demonstrated what had to be undoubtedly the most pathetic family in the history of the Church! The fact Hale recycled some of the same actors from The Singles Ward didn't help his cause much either. If my first impression of the Church had come from seeing The R.M., I wouldn't want a second impression. This film had a total lack of respect that crossed the border and went straight to blasphemous! Not to mention the two-minute on-air plug for Utah Weddings.com! YUCK! BARF-O-RAMA!! Get my drift?!? At least we know who helped bankroll the film, don't we???First of all, Jared's parents were so busy increasing their family that they sent him on his mission and promptly forgot about him! They move to another house and don't tell him, get pregnant with yet another child and don't tell him at all, which tells me neither they, nor anyone in his ward (INCLUDING HIS BISHOP) were writing him. They adopt a foreign exchange student Jared wasn't aware of, which again supports the idea he probably didn't hear from them his entire mission.Jared comes home to find out Mom and Dad moved, nobody was at the airport to pick him up, and when he DOES find the right house, he finds his girlfriend has dumped him, his parents sold his car, and then to add salt in the wound, everyone from his parents to the now ex-girlfriend to his BISHOP thinks he got sent home dishonorably, which indicated they were totally clueless as to his release date, which simply does not happen. There were ways to be humorous about this, and if Kurt Hale were looking for ways to be UNFUNNY about this, then he batted 1.000 in this film.Meanwhile, Dysfunctional Mom and Dad are off drawing circles on the board - can you say multi-level-marketing scam? - with fellow ward members in what only goes to further cement Utah's reputation as the nation's test-market for scams. A classic case of the 'greed gland' being stuck, Jared's parents - like so many others - equate wealth with spirituality and/or righteousness, which is CLEARLY not always the case.The most bothersome scene was the one where Jared gets arrested and nobody around him - including his own family or local church leaders - believes in his innocence, except his new girlfriend, who happens to be out of town with her father on church business. The fact that Jared's stake president released him before hearing any evidence shows him as one more interested in appearance than giving a good man the benefit of the doubt - again, a pathetic attempt to be funny that only shows a church leader in a negative light, when most leaders in that situation would have had one like Jared keep a low profile and just wait until the dust settled. All this does is further add to the complete implausibility of this totally useless film.Perhaps the ONLY amusing scene in this insipid flick was the doofus prosecutor that looked like a he/she - kind of a cross between Boy George and Michael Jackson - who was made fun of by the little kids at the end of the film. Had I been in the courtroom, I'd have made fun of him too.On a scale of one to ten, I give this turkey a MINUS TEN -10/10. ***

drgibson Not as "good" as Singles Ward, which although amateurish, was able to weave a plot and make knowing audiences laugh at the parody. But The R.M. is pathetic. There's virtually no plot. The jokes are stale. The characters are even more of a cliche than in Singles Ward. It's very unrealistic as the RM's family manages to adopt a brother, close a house sale and move without ever telling the RM. Right. Like other "Mormon" films, characters fall in love in two minutes through sappy montages (they did that in Charlie, too). The acting is atrocious, most particularly some sad sack who plays the prosecutor late in the film. One more thing: The film is way too long. They should have trimmed it to about 70 minutes. I give it two stars because there are only two jokes in the film.

SW_and_TPB_fan I liked this movie, with all the inside jokes, but Single's Ward rolled smoother. All in all I liked this movie though. My family still brings up parts and can't wait for it to come on video. We have almost worn out our Single's Ward tape and will most likely do the same to the RM.